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" Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat. "

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" I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage. "

" Grief is exhausting. "

" We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. "

" My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving. "

" I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years. "

" If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully. "

" In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is. "

" I don't think I'm very fashionable. I drink a fair amount of Barry's Tea, from Cork - but might that be fashionable? I don't know. "

" I've never traveled to promote anything I've been in. I've only been to about two or three premieres. The way I work, I do bits, and then I'm off to something else, whether it's theater or another project. "

" I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present? "

" You get to an age when you lose people close to you. "

" I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions. "

" Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working. "

" I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's a film, where I'm playing a character who just comes in and offers something up. "

" When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life. "

" I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years. "

" I don't use the word 'artists' lightly. "

" I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. "

" You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right. "

" I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years. "

" You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way. "

" Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies. "

" I've got a fairly low profile - I go and do me shopping when I need to! "

" My soul is still Irish. "

" I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I don't see what it adds to the story. "

" Casting is very, very important. "

" I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity. "

" That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them. "

" No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.' "